• Juiceyb [any]
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    1 year ago

    So the show Silicon Valley was a documentary more than a comedy show. Like I have seen it multiple times now and I am starting to get its point more and more especially as it comes to capital. No wonder our boy recommended it michael-laugh RIP bud

    • notceps [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No that's another vampire guy I think they based it on Peter Thiel that has just random young guys give him blood, wonder how many tech guys are doing it.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Quite a bit, you can get it commercially and it only costs a couple hundred per appointment per month (for the lowest tier of blood) and some health insurances cover it after deductibles

        It is a bit more expensive to reserve a personal blood boy/girl but you can choose the exact traits you want from the person you're getting it from and is worth it imo

        I personally have a cute fit blonde blood girl with sparkling light blue eyes to help with my feminization process

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, but I always saw the characters of that show to be composite of real-life people. And as composite characters, they aren't specific to one person but the whole industry as a whole. Gavin Belson is a Steve Jobs but we are seeing he's more of a Musk-type person. I would argue that Mike Judge made these characters out of the people who are in the industry rather than one specific person. Because this industry is going to collapse and the people who collapse it are going to teach in a prestigious university where they only perpetuate their bullshit and it becomes a cycle of capital. Today it's the internet and tomorrow whatever comes after that gets destroyed by capital's very extractive nature.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Which boy recommended it. When Mike Judge gets it, he gets it. When he doesn't he makes fuck awful shit like Idiocracy.

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        1 year ago

        Michael Brooks, on his show. I would say that whether Mike Judge knew it or not, it really shows the bullshit of the Tech Industry in the early 2010s and even now because it is based on the industry rather than the people. It gets you with the people but the boring parts are what really makes the show relevant to this day. I didn't understand the whole AI debate until the second time I watched the show during Covid.